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Definition of Gable roof

1. Noun. A double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end.

Definition of Gable roof

1. Noun. (context: roofing) a single-ridge roof that terminates at gable ends. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gable Roof

Literary usage of Gable roof

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"561 that the house with the combination roof requires less lumber than the gable-roof house, and that the latter requires less than the shed roof. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A piece of board hung from the edge of a gable roof where it projects beyond the ... One of the pair of rafters which carry that part of a gable roof which ..."

3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A piece of board hung from the edge of a gable roof where it projects beyond the ... One of the pair of rafters which carry that part of a gable roof which ..."

4. Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering: A General Reference Work on Surveying by American Technical Society (1917)
"The gambrel roof is a variation of the simple pitch or gable roof and was probably developed from it to meet a new condition, namely, the necessity for more ..."

5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... gable or gable-shaped feature, frequently introduced as an ornament on buttresses, screens, etc., particularly in medieval structures. a gable-roof. ..."

6. A Treatise on Design and Construction of Roofs by Nathan Clifford Ricker (1912)
"WALL SUPPORTINO A gable roof (Fig. 448) 365. Description.—A single masonry wall supports a gable roof n'sting on cantilever trusses, forming a structure ..."

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